WÜNSCHE, Max
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Wünsche, Max Date of birth:  April 20th, 1914 (Kittlitz/Löbau, Germany) Date of death:  April 18th, 1995 Nationality:  German BIOGRAPHY:  In service from October 1st 1934.       EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE Awarded on: May 25th, 1940         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE Awarded on: May 31st, 1940         KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD Rank: SS-Sturmbannführer Unit: I. / SS-Panzer-Regiment 1 Awarded on: February 25th, 1943 Details: Award 317/1         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: SS-Sturmbannführer Unit: Kommandeur I. / SS-Panzer-Regiment 1 / SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” Awarded on: February 28th, 1943 Details: 1567th Award         RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB Rank: SS-Obersturmbannführer Unit: Kommandeur SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 / 12.SS-Panzer-Division “Hitlerjugend” / 1.SS-Panzer-Korps / Heeresgruppe B Awarded on: August 11th, 1944 Details: 548th Award         Provide alterations or additional information Picture source:   - Willi Schumacher Collection Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002 - Kwasny A., Kwasny G., Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945 (CD), Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv, 2001 - Federl, C., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Panzerdivisionen 1939-1945, VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, Germany, 2000 - Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001 - Schneider J.W., Their Honor was Loyalty!, R. James Bender Publishing, 1977